New ZDOOM port to Amiga 68k

[fitzsteve]

Thanks again for your work on this and indeed all your great ports

[Retrofan]

Wonderful Steve

[XDelusion]

Here's a nice little pWAD demonstrating some of ZDOOM 1.22's features.

http://zdoom.org/files/examples/demo.zip

[Amicol]

Has anyone got this port working with just 32mb of RAM?
It starts loading then jumps back to Workbench, no errors recorded.

I'm using the latest WAD 1.9. Works fine with Boom

[NovaCoder]

Originally Posted by Amicol

Has anyone got this port working with just 32mb of RAM?
It starts loading then jumps back to Workbench, no errors recorded.

I'm using the latest WAD 1.9. Works fine with Boom

Hiya,


I don't know how much memory it really uses, try enabling the 'heapsize' Tool Type and set it to 26 (or lower). By default (when it's not specified) it allocates a heap of 28 (MB).

[fitzsteve]

Originally Posted by Retrofan

Wonderful Steve

Thanks mate

@Nova, I know I mentioned it before but what's the probability of AHI implementation, my Sound Card feels unloved

BTW for shits n giggles I tried the RTG version with OS4.1 on my AmigaOne (sound disabled) it doesn't work... (DSI error)

[NovaCoder]

Originally Posted by fitzsteve

@Nova, I know I mentioned it before but what's the probability of AHI implementation, my Sound Card feels unloved

It's technically possible but it will make it a little be slower on classics for most people, I could off it as an option I guess.

Originally Posted by XDelusion

Here's a nice little pWAD demonstrating some of ZDOOM 1.22's features.

http://zdoom.org/files/examples/demo.zip

Thanks for that, just gave it a quick test against the win32 version of ZDOOM v1.22 compared to my 68k port and it looks like my one is having some problems with that WAD (possibly down to more endian issues with loading the ACS script files). I'll have tor try and fix it up when I get the time.

[Amicol]

Originally Posted by NovaCoder

Hiya,


I don't know how much memory it really uses, try enabling the 'heapsize' Tool Type and set it to 26 (or lower). By default (when it's not specified) it allocates a heap of 28 (MB).

Hi mate, tried that, comes back with error, st9bad_alloc program aborted

[NovaCoder]

Originally Posted by Amicol

Hi mate, tried that, comes back with error, st9bad_alloc program aborted

AGA or RTG version?

[Amicol]

Originally Posted by NovaCoder

AGA or RTG version?

AGA version on my real miggy

Apollo 1260 @ 80Mhz, 32mb SIMM

Classic Workbench 3.9

68060 library 46.7

[NovaCoder]

Ok, I'll stick a new version in the Zone for you which will only allocate 16MB, can you test it and let me know.

Thanks


Update: In the Zone

[Amicol]

Originally Posted by NovaCoder

Ok, I'll stick a new version in the Zone for you which will only allocate 16MB, can you test it and let me know.

Thanks

Yeh!

[Amicol]

GREAT!! It works!

Thanks very much Nova, I'm not worthy....

[fitzsteve]

A couple of you guys mentioned performance issues on 060, I've just got a 1260 and it's unplayable, like a slide show! Yet it runs fine on my 040/RTG

Any suggestions?

[NovaCoder]

I just uploaded v1.10 to AmiNet (AGA), should be slightly quicker now (removed the slow bot code, too much for real machines).

I'll probably upload the RTG version tomorrow and then have a look at what's going on with AmiWolf

I also have a working port of ODAMEX that I'll have to clean up and stick on AmiNet one of these days.

[Amicol]

Great, runs really nicely!
One thing still remains for me.
It still crashes just before Dead Simple (after The Crusher) on Doom2 for some reason...

Keep up the great work

[NovaCoder]

Originally Posted by Amicol

Great, runs really nicely!
One thing still remains for me.
It still crashes just before Dead Simple (after The Crusher) on Doom2 for some reason...

Keep up the great work

Are you using the patched DOOM2 WAD file? ZDOOM likes the latest versions of the WADS (links in the ZDOOM README).

Otherwise it might be caused by an endian issue, unfortunately the ZDOOM source code is not endian 'clean' which causes problems when parsing WADS.

I think ODAMEX will prove to be the most advanced 68k port of DOOM for power users followed by ZDOOM and BOOM


If you only have an 030 you should stick with good old DoomAttack

[VincentGR]

Tommorow I will try 1.10 to my 030/50.
Thanks!!!

[Amicol]

Originally Posted by NovaCoder

Are you using the patched DOOM2 WAD file? ZDOOM likes the latest versions of the WADS (links in the README).

I'm sure I patched to the latest version,
Can you check it's the same as yours mate?
14,604,584 bytes (28,525 blocks)

[NovaCoder]

Originally Posted by Amicol

I'm sure I patched to the latest version,
Can you check it's the same as yours mate?
14,604,584 bytes (28,525 blocks)

Yep same as mine, I guess it must be an endian issue then (which is very hard to fix).